Electronic and Communications Dep.
College of Engineering
Al-Nahrain University
Computer Fundamentals and Programming I
First Stage
2024 - 2025
LECTURE THREE MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD
Microsoft Office Word 2010 Concepts
In this module, you will learn about a most commonly used word
processing software, Microsoft Word (often called MS Word or Word)
which works in Windows operating system.
1. STARTING MICROSOFT WORD
To launch Microsoft Word, we need to have the MS Office suite installed
in our machine. The steps are as follows:
• Click on the Windows Start button
• Click on All Programs
• Click on Microsoft Office
• Select Microsoft Word 2010
if so, we have to double click the icon and Word will open.
COMPONENTS OF MS WORD
When we start MS Word, a blank document will appaer as shown in the
following Figure.
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• Title bar: The title bar displays the title/name of the current
document that is open.
• Scroll bar: The scroll bar allows us to navigate through all the
pages of a document.
• Magnification bar: The magnification bar allows us to increase
or decrease the zoom level of the current document.
• Document body: The document body is where we create the
document elements like text, graphics, tables etc. by inserting
them using the available options.
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The Ribbon consists of the following series of tabs:
File tab is a very important tab and it consists of Save, Save As, Print,
Open, Close, Recent, Print, Exit options.
The Home tab allows us to format text by Font Style, Font Size, Bold,
Italic, Underline, Alignment, Numbered List, Bulleted List, Spacing
and Font Color.
Insert Tab allows us to insert a variety of items into a document
from pictures, tables and headers and footers.
Layout Tab has commands to adjust page elements such as margins,
orientation, inserting columns, etc.
2. WORKING WITH TEXT
1. First, we select the text that we want to format.
2. From the Font group as shown in Figure under the Home tabs, we
may select the options for Font, Size, Bold, Italic, Underline,
Strikethrough, Subscript, Superscript, etc.
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We right-click the selected text and choose Font which opens the Font
dialog box of Figure below, and then we change the individual values.
Using the Backspace Key: The Backspace key erases text before the
cursor position.
3. Adding Header and Footer:
• On the Insert tab, in the Header & Footer group, we click Header or
Footer.
• Then we click the header or footer that we want to add to our
document and header or footer area will open.
• We type text in the header or footer area.
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4. INSERTING PICTURES
• Under the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group as in Figure we click
the Picture icon.
• On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, we click Shapes
5. CREATING TABLE
To create a table:
1. We select Tables from the Tables group under the Insert tabs as
shown in Figure below.
2. This expands the Insert Table drop-down menu giving us a number
of options.
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Or,
• The Draw Table option allows us to draw a table using the mouse.
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6. ADDING ROWS AND COLUMNS
Adding rows in a table:
We click in a cell that is located just below or above where we want to
add a row. Under Table Tools, on the Layout tab (Figure below), we
can do one of the following:
- To add a row just above the cell that we clicked in, in the Rows
and Columns group, we click Insert Above.
- To add a row just below the cell that we clicked in, in the Rows
and Columns group, we click Insert Below.
Figure: Table Tools and Layout tab
Adding columns in a table:
We click in a cell that is located just to the right or left of where we
want to add a column. Under Table Tools, on the Layout tab, (Figure
above) we do one of the following:
- To add a column just to the left of the cell that we clicked in, in
the Rows and Columns group, we click Insert Left
- To add a column just to the right of the cell that we clicked in, in
the Rows and Columns group, we click Insert Right.
7. MERGING AND SPLITTING OF CELLS
Merging of cells: combine two or more cells in the same row or column
into a single cell.
- we click in one of the cells we want to merge.
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- under Table Tools on the Layout tab (Figure above), in the Merge
group, we select the option we want. We can choose to merge the
cell we have clicked with the cell above it, below it, or to the left or
right of it.
8. SPLITTING OF CELL:
In MS Word we can divide a cell horizontally or vertically by selecting
Split Cells option. For this:
- We have to click in the cell that we want to split.
- Then we click Split Cells under the Merge group (Figure above).
- We specify number of columns and rows in the Split Cells dialog
box and click OK button.
9. SAVING A DOCUMENT
Whenever we create a new document in Word, we will need to know
how to save it in order to access and edit it later. Word allows us to
save our documents in a number of ways.
the steps to do this,
• We click the File Tab
• Then we select Save.
• The Save As dialog box will appear. We select the location where we.
• We enter a name for the document and then click Save.
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The document saved in MS Word takes the extension name as .docx
